A Database to Support Development and Evaluation of Intelligent
Intensive Care Monitoring

This article originally appeared in Computers in Cardiology23:657-660, 1996. Please cite this publication when referencing this
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Abstract:

Development and evaluation of automated decision support systems
requires large amounts of well-characterized, reproducible test data.
The MIMIC (Multi-parameter Intelligent Monitoring for Intensive Care)
Database is intended to meet these needs. The database, currently
nearing completion, will include 100 patient records, each typically
containing between 24 and 48 hours of continuous data recorded from
patient monitors in the medical, surgical, and cardiac intensive care
units of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. Each record will be
accompanied by detailed clinical data derived from the patient's
medical record and from the hospital's on-line medical information
systems. We select patients to record from those likely to be
hemodynamically unstable during the planned recording period.
We expect to complete the selection of the recordings to
be included in the database by the end of 1996, and to make the
database available to other researchers shortly thereafter.